After the German attack on the Soviet Union, Stalin was confused for days. He was afraid it was his end. However, he shook himself and gave a radio speech on July 3. Lenin created our state, and we took everything ... - Joseph Stalin was said to have said on June 28, 1941, when he heard about th
In the 1940s and 1950s, in Warsaws Ochota district, an elderly gentleman sat on a bench and stared at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie monument. Pointing to the sculpture, he could say:If I had married her, she would not have become a Nobel Prize winner. And he would be right! The story of the acquain
From a paranoid state of tension to an uncontrolled explosion. These were the first hours of the uprising, which went down in history as the Greater Poland Uprising. The center of the Polish-German struggle for the membership of Greater Poland was Poznań. This is where the first shots were fired and
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe were marked by the witch hunt. Women were accused of organizing Sabbaths, negotiating with the Devil, and engaging in licentious sex with him. From todays perspective, this image may even be funny for us, but a few hundred years ago no one was laughi